Missing Asian teen changed paperwork to list 45-year-old man as stepfather
The teenager was friends with one the missing married man’s daughters, according to US media reports
A 45-year-old man who signed out a 16-year-old girl from her Pennsylvania school 10 times in the last few months before the two went missing was able to do so because she had changed school documents to list him as her stepfather, according to police.
US media reports said the two were in a ‘secretive relationship’, according to court documents.
Allentown police issued a missing person alert on Wednesday for Kevin Esterly and Amy Yu. Police also issued a warrant for Esterly’s arrest alleging interference with the custody of a child.
School records show Esterly signed Amy out of school 10 times between November 13 and February 9 without her parents’ permission, police said.
The girl had altered her student records to list Esterly as her stepfather, said Gary Hammer, of the Colonial Regional Police. Hammer told ABC News the girl’s mother arrived to pick her up at Lehigh Valley Academy on February 9 and school workers said she had left with her stepfather. The shocked woman told them she is a single mother.
School workers called police, Hammer said.
